Effects Of Media In Today's Society
Media affects today's society strongly because everything media shows us impacts us and we believe it and changes our thought on reality. For example the television, if we watch an advertisement for a new phone and we see celebrities using it we immediately think that that is the in phone and that everyone should have one or if we see a celebrity wearing a style of clothing we will want to start wearing clothes like that and think that people who don't wear clothes like that are unfashionable. Media controls our lives and what we think. It can change our opinion on something as well. We can see a model on the computer and think that that is what beauty really is ; tall , skinny , long hair and want to become like that and change ourselves and cake our faces with make up to match that ideal look. Media can pass on information that is not true about someone or something like a rumor. Media helps contribute towards suicides due to cyber bullying or even the desire to be someone we are not and not being happy with ourselves.
Despite all those things that media can do to us it can also affect us positively by helping us and educating us about basic human rights. Media can give us information that we don't know like what is going on across the world. For example it can show us how we are polluting the world and make us change our ways. We can surf the world wide web and find out things that we want to know and educate ourselves. We can watch the news on the television to find out what is going on around the world and what we can do to help. Media also helps countries become more modern with technology. Media can be both positive and negative but without it the world would not be where it is today.
